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Blazing like a kaṇikāra tree, shining like a tree of lamps,
resplendent like gold — I saw the supreme one among two-footed beings.
Setting down my water pot (kamaṇḍalu), my bark garment, and my water jar,
and arranging the antelope hide over one shoulder, I praised the supreme Buddha:
"Dispelling the blinding darkness entangled with the net of delusion (moha),
having shown the light of knowledge (ñāṇa), you have crossed over,¹ O sage.
You lift up this entire world, O Unsurpassed One;
as far as the range of the world² extends, there is no simile for your knowledge.
Through that knowledge, the All-Knowing One is called 'All-Knowing';
I venerate you, the Great Hero, all-knowing, free of taints (āsava)."
In the hundred-thousandth aeon from the present I praised the supreme Buddha;
I know of no bad destination — this is the fruit of praising his knowledge.
My defilements have been burned away; all existences have been uprooted;
like an elephant that has sundered its bonds, I dwell free of taints.
Welcome indeed was my coming into the presence of my Buddha:
the three true knowledges (vijjā) have been attained; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
The four analytic insights, and also these eight liberations,
and the six superknowledges have been realized; the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.
Thus indeed did the Venerable Ñāṇatthavika the Elder speak these verses.
The Apadāna of Ñāṇatthavika the Elder is concluded.
The Fifth: the Apadāna of Ucchukhaṇḍika the Elder (435)
¹ Variant (Burmese and European editions): "nittiṇṇosi mahāmuni" — "you have crossed beyond, O Great Sage."
² Variant (European edition): "ca gato gati."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.